Raventor Triple Cairn.
Location-
Raven Tor, Beeley, Derbyshire.
O.S Grid Reference-
SK28042 66869.
Parking in the lay-by at the top of Rowsley Bar SK278661 or at the entrance to Wraggs Quarries (disused) entrance to the moor is gained via the open access gate a few metres South of the quarry entrance. Follow the track through the quarries as far as it will take you and then strike out across the heather moorland toward Fallinge Edge, the moor is often wet underfoot. The photgraphs below were taken several years ago and it's unfortunate that heather now covers the monument making it a less obvious feature than it was. That said it is one of the Peak's hidden megalithic wonders and well worth visiting. Its location high above the River Derwent close to its confluence with the River Wye offers spectacular views of the gritstone edges and moorlands in the distant NE.
All the cairns are kerbed, the central one sporting a double kerb. But it is the kerbstones on the Northern edge of the monument that are truly megalithic that make these cairns such a must see.
Excavated in the mid 20th Century, where pottery and bone were found, this official excavation wasn't the fitrst as a Boots carrier bag with bone fragments within was found under the stones of the cairn.
Approximately 25feet away from the Triple Cairn is a kerbed rectangular cist and stone setting. Thought to be an added later feature it shows the importance of this position and the three cairns that occupy it.
Raven Tor, Beeley, Derbyshire.
O.S Grid Reference-
SK28042 66869.
Parking in the lay-by at the top of Rowsley Bar SK278661 or at the entrance to Wraggs Quarries (disused) entrance to the moor is gained via the open access gate a few metres South of the quarry entrance. Follow the track through the quarries as far as it will take you and then strike out across the heather moorland toward Fallinge Edge, the moor is often wet underfoot. The photgraphs below were taken several years ago and it's unfortunate that heather now covers the monument making it a less obvious feature than it was. That said it is one of the Peak's hidden megalithic wonders and well worth visiting. Its location high above the River Derwent close to its confluence with the River Wye offers spectacular views of the gritstone edges and moorlands in the distant NE.
All the cairns are kerbed, the central one sporting a double kerb. But it is the kerbstones on the Northern edge of the monument that are truly megalithic that make these cairns such a must see.
Excavated in the mid 20th Century, where pottery and bone were found, this official excavation wasn't the fitrst as a Boots carrier bag with bone fragments within was found under the stones of the cairn.
Approximately 25feet away from the Triple Cairn is a kerbed rectangular cist and stone setting. Thought to be an added later feature it shows the importance of this position and the three cairns that occupy it.
The Triple Cairn at Raventor
The megalithic Northern kerbstones.
The rectangular cist and setting.
